Give reasons why acquired characters are not inherited.

(N/A) Acquired characters are changes that occur in the somatic cells of an organism during its lifetime due to environmental factors or usage/disuse of organs.
These changes do not affect the $DNA$ of the germ cells (reproductive cells).
Since only the information present in the $DNA$ of germ cells is passed on to the next generation,acquired characters cannot be inherited.
Only those traits that are encoded by genes in the germ cells are heritable.